Señor Gus srfrog

How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory

I screwed up using git ("git checkout --" on the wrong file) and managed to delete the code I had just written... but it was still running in a process in a docker container. Here's how I got it back, using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrasite/ and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/uncompyle6

Attach a shell to the docker container

Install GDB (needed by pyrasite)

apt-get update && apt-get install gdb

PostgreSQL Data Types	AWS DMS Data Types	Redshift Data Types
INTEGER	INT4	INT4
SMALLINT	INT2	INT2
BIGINT	INT8	INT8
NUMERIC (p,s)	If precision is 39 or greater, then use STRING.	If the scale is => 0 and =< 37 then: NUMERIC (p,s) If the scale is => 38 and =< 127 then: VARCHAR (Length)
DECIMAL(P,S)	If precision is 39 or greater, then use STRING.	If the scale is => 0 and =< 37 then: NUMERIC (p,s) If the scale is => 38 and =< 127 then: VARCHAR (Length)
REAL	REAL4	FLOAT4
DOUBLE	REAL8	FLOAT8
SMALLSERIAL	INT2	INT2
SERIAL	INT4	INT4

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

API	Status Codes
[Twitter][tw]	200, 304, 400, 401, 403, 404, 406, 410, 420, 422, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504
[Stripe][stripe]	200, 400, 401, 402, 404, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504
[Github][gh]	200, 400, 422, 301, 302, 304, 307, 401, 403
[Pagerduty][pd]	200, 201, 204, 400, 401, 403, 404, 408, 500
[NewRelic Plugins][nr]	200, 400, 403, 404, 405, 413, 500, 502, 503, 503
[Etsy][etsy]	200, 201, 400, 403, 404, 500, 503
[Dropbox][db]	200, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 429, 503, 507

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

Firefox bullshit removal

Updated: Just use qutebrowser (and disable javascript). The web is done for.

Golang Workers / Job Queue

A running example of the code from:

This gist creates a working example from blog post, and a alternate example using simple worker pool.

TLDR: if you want simple and controlled concurrency use a worker pool.

Distributed Read-Write Mutex in Go

This project has moved to https://github.com/jonhoo/drwmutex so it can be imported into Go applications.

	package main

	import (
	"log"
	"syscall"
	"unsafe"
	)

	var (
	kernel32 = syscall.NewLazyDLL("kernel32.dll")

	###
	###
	### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script:
	### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
	### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
	### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
	### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win \| iex
	###
	### OR take a look at
	### https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security